Hovering Steward

The autonomous flying waiter

The idea of the project is the development of a logistics system. The use case of the project is the gastronomy industry and is implemented with a hex-rotor. To put it in a nutshell, the drone should be able to serve cupcakes in a restaurant. To make the system autonomous, a digital menu is programmed. Optionally, an event called "Fluorescent Bakery" is planned. The system will be tested at that event.

Development

The project started in project management lecture in high school. Every team needed to think of a fictitious project to create project management plans for it. In this lesson, "Fluorescent Bakery" was born - a bakery where you can order fluorescent cupcakes. The technical aspect came later, when the team decided to do that project as A-Levels project. The approach was to create a non human server, who is able to serve cupcakes with the help of artificial intelligence. A server on wheels seemed to be boring, so the idea was born to use a drone. The third dimension was included and so our server was supposed to fly. This is how "Hovering Steward - the autonomous flying server" arised. In addition, a digital menu was created, to automatise the system even more.